Research Catalog

Title

Natural dyes : sources, tradition, technology and science / Dominique Cardon.

Author

Cardon, Dominique.

Publication

London : Archetype Publications, c2007.

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Details

Description

xxi, 778 : col. ill.; 26 com.

Subject

• Dyes and dyeing

Note

• "Original edition: Le monde des teintures naturelles, Éditions Belin, Paris, 2003"--T.p. verso.
• "This work is published with the support of the French Ministry of Culture"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 711-769) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. The art of dyeing -- Ch. 1. The experience of centuries -- Ch. 2. The discovery and mastery of mordants and mordanting -- pt. 2. Dye-plants -- Ch. 3. Reds, violets, russets : safflower and quinone dyes -- Ch. 4. A world of reds : rubiaceae plants rich in red anthraquinone dyes -- Ch. 5. A wealth of yellow : plants containing flavonoids -- Ch. 6. Flavonoids, but not yellow -- Ch. 7. Yellow, but not flavonoids -- Ch. 8. Cocaigne to cowboys : indigo plants, indigo blues -- Ch. 9. Into darkness : tannin plants -- Ch. 10. Dyes from lichens and fungi.

ISBN

• 9781904982005 (hbk.)
• 190498200X (hbk.)

OCLC

• 123114906
• SCSB-9892970

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library